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2019-2020 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions

How to Read Catalog Course Descriptions

Texas Tech offers nearly 5,000 courses as part of its curriculum. These courses are listed alphabetically by subject prefix within each college and departmental section of this catalog. The courses appear in numerical order, moving from beginning freshman or developmental level courses to graduate, research, and professional courses.

Not all courses listed in this catalog are offered every year. An online class schedule published before each registration period indicates courses that will be available during the upcoming term or semester and when each class will meet. The class schedule can be found at (www.depts.ttu.edu/officialpublications/class_schedule/index.php). The university reserves the right to cancel any scheduled course or withdraw any program from the list of offerings when the best interests of the institution require such action.

Courses are designated by a subject prefix and number along with a descriptive title. Learn more  about interpreting the course descriptions found throughout the catalog.
 

CHE - Chemical Engineering (Graduate Courses)
  

  • CHE 5000 - Advanced Topics in Chemical Engineering

    V1-6 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Approval of department chairperson. Individual study of topics of current interest under the guidance of a member of the staff. May be repeated for credit on different topics.
  

  • CHE 5310 - Advanced Chemical Engineering Techniques

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Application of ordinary and partial differential equations for solution of mass, momentum, and/or energy transfer and transport problems. Primary emphasis is on the mathematical analysis of unsteady state systems and chemical-reaction systems: models, solutions, and model validation. One of five courses required in the master’s program.
  

  • CHE 5312 - Fluid Transport Principles and Analysis

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Fundamental relations governing mass, momentum, and energy transfer within fluids, with special emphasis on simultaneous transport, process applications, and numerical methods of analysis. One of five courses required in the master’s program.
  

  • CHE 5315 - Experimental Techniques in Fluid Dynamics

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Experimental techniques for fluid dynamics, including flow visualization, fluid characterization, image processing and analysis. Analytical modeling and statistical treatment of experimental data. Significant laboratory component.
  

  • CHE 5321 - Advanced Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    In-depth study of fundamental laws of thermodynamics, property relations for pure material and mixtures, and phase and chemical equilibrium principles. One of five courses required in the master’s program.
  

  • CHE 5323 - Digital Computation for Chemical Engineers

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    The development of current numerical methods for application to modeling of chemical engineering systems. Primary emphasis is placed upon steady state and unsteady state chemical reaction systems. One of five courses required in the master’s program.
  

  • CHE 5335 - Intermediate Transport Phenomena

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisites: CHE 5312  and CHE 5310 , or consent of instructor. Mass, momentum, and energy transport; Fick’s law; solution of partial differential equations in time and space; interfacial transport; applications to separations.
  

  • CHE 5340 - Polymer Processing

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Polymer processing and fabrication technology for thermoplastic and thermoset polymers. The science and art of manufacturing with plastic materials.
  

  • CHE 5341 - Polymer Chemistry and Processing

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Polymerization reactions, mechanisms, and kinetics, large-scale synthesis, scope of polymer processing, and fabrication technology.
  

  • CHE 5342 - Polymer Physics and Engineering

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Fundamentals of polymer science and engineering. Solution properties, chain conformation and molecular mass characterization. Rubber elasticity and viscoelastic behavior. Crystalline polymers and morphology.
  

  • CHE 5343 - Reaction Kinetics

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Analysis and design of chemical reactor operations with multiple reactions; semibatch operations and other complex reactor configurations. Determination of kinetic parameters from operating data. Economic-based optimization, characterization and modeling of non-ideal reactors. One of five courses required in the master’s program.
  

  • CHE 5344 - Polymers and Materials Laboratory

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Synthesis and properties of materials, including polymers, polymerization, transitions, phase separation, mechanical properties, and processing.
  

  • CHE 5346 - Polymer Viscoelasticity

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Linear viscoelasticity, Boltzmann superposition, experimental methods, molecular theory, and mechanical properties of solid polymers.
  

  • CHE 5347 - Polymer Crystallization and Morphology

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: C or better in CHE 5342 . Structure and properties in semicrystalline polymers; mechanisms, thermodynamics, and kinetics of crystallization; morphology and crystal structure; thermal analysis, X-ray diffraction, and FTIR spectroscopy.
  

  • CHE 5348 - Materials Applications for Scanning Probe Microscopy

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    The science and technology of scanning probe techniques, including scanning tunneling microscopy, near field scanning optical microscopy, and atomic force microscopy, applied to materials characterication.
  

  • CHE 5356 - Process Safety

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Introduction to hazards associated with chemical, physical, and biological processes, regulations, and risk assessment and management.
  

  • CHE 5363 - Biochemical Engineering

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Introduction to biochemical reaction engineering and separations. Kinetics of biomass and product information and substrate utilization. Biotransport phenomena, bioenergetics, downstream separation, and purification process.
  

  • CHE 5364 - Chemical Engineering Applications in Biological Systems

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: MATH 3350  or MATH 3354 . Transport phenomena and chemical reactions at the molecular and cellular level in biological systems.
  

  • CHE 5365 - Biotransport

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Mass and momentum transport in living systems.
  

  • CHE 5366 - Biomicrofluidics

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Fluid phenomena at small scales. Science and engineering of miniaturized lab-on-chip devices for applications in chemical, biomolecular, and cellular analysis.
  

  • CHE 5372 - Engineering Experimentation

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Course emphasizes strategy in experimentation, planning efficient experiments, analyzing and interpreting data, presenting results, and Six Sigma methodology.
  

  • CHE 5381 - Molecular Thermodynamics for Chemical Engineering

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: CHE 5321 . Molecular theories for properties of gases and condensed phase systems. Emphasis will be on free energy changes, phase equilibria, and transport properties.
  

  • CHE 5382 - Methods of Molecular Simulations

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Theory and applications of computational methods for simulating the statistical mechanics of complex molecular systems. Discusses thermodynamic, transport, and dynamic properties.
  

  • CHE 5385 - Bioprocess Control

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Problems and solutions associated with optimization and control of bioprocesses.
  

  • CHE 5391 - Chemical Engineering Application in Energy Science

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    An introduction to conventional and renewable energy sources with an emphasis on chemical engineering applications, enhanced oil recovery techniques, and renewable energy technologies.
  

  • CHE 5392 - Entrepreneurship for Chemical Engineers

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Business plan preparation, types of enterprises and initial steps including key permits necessary to start a chemical engineering enterprise.
  

  • CHE 5393 - Colloid Science and Engineering

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Introduction to fundamentals of colloid science, interfacial phenomena, suspensions and complex fluids, engineering and assembly of colloidal materials, and enhanced oil recovery.
  

  • CHE 5394 - Soft Matter Engineering

    3 Semester Credit Hours
    Introduction to fundamentals of soft matter physics, engineering structured fluids based on microscopic structure- function relationship for practical applications in food, consumer products, and pharmaceuticals.
  

  • CHE 5635 - Advanced Topics in Transport Phenomena

    6 Semester Credit Hours
    Current research topics in transport phenomena, including turbulent flow characterization, atmospheric chemistry and transport, and rheology, with an emphasis on computational modeling.
  

  • CHE 6000 - Master’s Thesis

    V1-12 Semester Credit Hours
  

  • CHE 7000 - Research

    V1-12 Semester Credit Hours
  

  • CHE 7121 - Doctoral Seminar

    1 Semester Credit Hours
    Open discussions of recent advanced findings in any field of endeavor, with special attention to their relationship to the philosophy of chemical engineering. May be repeated for credit.
  

  • CHE 7122 - Polymer and Materials Seminar

    1 Semester Credit Hours
    Discussion and presentation of current research.
  

  • CHE 7123 - Bioengineering Seminar

    1 Semester Credit Hours
    Discussion and presentation of current research in bioengineering.
  

  • CHE 8000 - Doctor’s Dissertation

    V1-12 Semester Credit Hours